Political prisoner Vasil Parfiankou transferred to arrest house
Vasil Parfiankou, sentenced to a prison
term for the post-election protests, but released in August 2011, has been
thrown behind bars again.
Vasil Parfiankou phoned his friend
Volha at 7:50 a.m. today and said policemen came to escort him to a detention
facility.
Vasil said he would possibly be transferred to the Pershamaiski district police
department today. Police seized his mobile phone later, RFE/RL reports.
On 24 June, the Minsk city court dismissed Parfiankou's appeal against a court
decision on 6-month custodial term for violation of the rules of preventive
surveillance.
On 29 May, Vasil Parfiankou was tried in the Pershamaiski district court in
connection with violation of article 421 of the Criminal Code. The trial was
carried out by judge Siarhei Bandarenka.
Parfiankou was put under a year's preventive surveillance on 5 January 2012.
The reason was Parfiankou's public and political activity after the release
from prison. He ans other prisoners involved in the 2010 post-election protests
were pardoned by Lukashenka in August 2011.
Vasil Parfiankou took part in a rally against the rigged presidential elections
on 19 December 2010. He was detained on 4 January 2011 on accusations of “mass
disorders”. He was kept in a detention facility in Minsk until trial.
On 17 February Judge Volha Komar
from the Frunzenski district court sentenced Parfiankou to 4 years in a maximum
security penal colony. He was also to pay 14,700,000 rubles to compensate for
the allegedly damaged building. Money to pay the fine was collected by people
who wanted to show solidarity with political prisoners.
He served his term in penal colony No. 8 in Orsha until the release on 13 August 2011.
